Scooter Braun Quotes

When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life.

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I'm not a pop star.

I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

I didn't want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.